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Word: musts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is the key to pulling off any affectation. You must not look like you're trying to do anything. Use any excuse or alibi--I like it, I think it looks good, it's all that was available, I did it on a dare--but never ever admit to an affectation...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Nose Rings and Narcissism | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...under a special amnesty program, the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that it had received an astonishing 1.2 million applications, four times the number expected. Normally, about 600,000 aliens come to the U.S. each year to pick crops and work on farms. To qualify for amnesty, the aliens must show they did such work for 90 days between May 1, 1985, and May 1, 1986. So it seems that at least half the applications were phony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aliens: A Million Late Arrivals | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Once filled, the HDL particles must get their load of cholesterol back to the liver for excretion. Some researchers theorize that cholesterol collected in the HDL particle is transferred to a VLDL ferryboat circulating in the bloodstream; the VLDL then metamorphoses into an LDL, which is picked up by an LDL receptor in the liver. Others think HDL may in fact be a passive player -- a sort of biological signal light that indicates how efficiently excess cholesterol is being removed, without necessarily taking any direct role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Searching for Life's Elixir: HDL, the good cholesterol | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...protests along the Baltic. At a special session of the Supreme Soviet, a few deputies to the traditionally rubber-stamp parliament took glasnost and democratization seriously enough to vote against some of Gorbachev's reforms. These difficulties give Gorbachev two reasons to keep hitting the diplomatic high road: he must reduce international tensions if he / is to devote more resources to internal restructuring, and he needs a demonstrably successful foreign policy to compensate for the setbacks to his domestic program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paint The Town Red:Mikhail Gorbachev's Visit to New York | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Somehow Bhutto must find ways to meet some of the expectations of the poor, who form the P.P.P.'s main constituency. In the raucous streets of Rawalpindi following her elevation, those hopes were ballooning beyond reality. Explained a P.P.P. election worker: "We've been denied everything for the past eleven years. Now it's our turn to get a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Now, the Hard Part: Governing | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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